The flashing blue lights of a Richmond Hill police cruiser parked at the intersection of U.S. 17 and Live Oak Plantation Drive after heavy rains flooded the entrance to the Live Oak subdivision Saturday could have been seen as an exclamation point on the amount of rain that has fallen in the county over the last two months.

Emergency Services Chief Freddie Howell said he did not know exactly how much rain had fallen this summer, but he knew it was a lot.

“I haven’t kept up with it, but we have sure been blessed this year with rain,” he said.

But despite the heavy rains over the last 60 or so days, few problems have been reported.

“I think it has rained every day for the last two months Pembroke Clerk of Works Ricky McCoy said last week. But even so the city has not suffered much from it he said, just some messy unpaved roads.

“We did have had to postpone some of our sidewalk replacement projects though, it has been too wet for that,” he added.

In Richmond Hill, City Manager Chris Lovell said most of the problems encountered have been related to pot holes developing.

“Any place you have a problem already, the amount of rain we’ve had just speeds it up,” he said. “It just washes away.”

Ray Pittman, Bryan County administrator, described the only problems his office had seen as “nothing serious,” with most relating to dirt roads in the north end of the county.

And while the rain has abated for a bit recently Howell cautions that Bryan County may not be headed for a dry spell just yet.

“They (weather service) keep saying basically it is going to be about the same, more rain,” he said. “On the good side, it has cut down on the forest fire threat, it has kept down all the woods fires and brush fires. But it seems to be drying up pretty quickly.

I just left Morgan’s Bridge down there off 204, and it is lower than it was back about a month ago.”

Another real concern is what could result from a combination of already sodden ground and strong winds.

“If we get a tropical storm in here, we are going to have trees down everywhere. If we got any wind right now, as wet as the ground is, we are going to have a lot of trees down,” Howell said.